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| -GotToVote-RCI |
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| -============= |
| 1 | +GotToVote |
| 2 | +========== |
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| -*Demo: http://rci.gottovote.cc* |
| 4 | +_Enabling citizens to get to the ballot box informed and ready._ |
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| -[GotToVote](http://gottovote.cc/)'s Registration Centres Information (R.C.I.) platform. |
| 6 | +GotToVote started off as a simple experiment to make data otherwise locked in government, useful to the general public. |
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| -#### Installation |
| 8 | +When the Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission released voter registration centres locations information in the 2013 Kenyan Elections, they made it available as a PDF on their otherwise always unavailable website. The Code4Kenya fellows then set out in 24hrs to create an experiment that was so simple and direct with this PDF that it went viral without any marketing campaign. |
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| -You can find installation docs [here](http://gottovote.cc/docs). |
| 10 | +The PDF was scraped and made available in the form of a website with three drops downs. This allowed a citizen to drill down very easily according to administrative boundaries and decide which is the nearest voter registration centre. |
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| 12 | +This unprecedented ease of finding your registration centre spurred adoption of GotToVote's simple code in Zimbabwe, Ghana and Malawi. Code4Africa continues to this day in ensuring citizens get to the ballot box prepared by adding more arsenal of what GotToVote can offer and has grown to include Peace Messaging, Polling Results and Voter Registration Confirmation (VRC). |
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| 14 | +Please check out our much prettier presentation of GotToVote here: https://gottovote.cc/ |
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| 17 | +### Installation |
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| 19 | +We're are still working on them but you can find the shell of unloved installation docs [here](http://gottovote.cc/docs). |
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| 21 | +--- |
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| 23 | +### License |
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| 25 | +MIT License |
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| 27 | +Copyright (c) 2012 Code for Africa |
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| 29 | +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy |
| 30 | +of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal |
| 31 | +in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights |
| 32 | +to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell |
| 33 | +copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is |
| 34 | +furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: |
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| 36 | +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all |
| 37 | +copies or substantial portions of the Software. |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR |
| 40 | +IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, |
| 41 | +FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE |
| 42 | +AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER |
| 43 | +LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, |
| 44 | +OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE |
| 45 | +SOFTWARE. |
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